Now Hiring: See a concept through from start to finish as we create, publish, advertise, and distribute the first ever Stone Academy Staff Trading Cards. Interview and photograph teachers in ways that you WON'T be seeing on the school web site. Discover Mr. Holliday's favorite foods. Learn about Mrs. Knight's hobby. You'll dabble in digital photography, desktop publishing, advertising, and inventory control. Hours are short and pay is nonexistent, but the on-the-job training is great!

Clubs are a Friday afternoon activity for all 4th and 5th grade students.   Each semester, my club, the Stone Publishing Company ìhiresî  a group of  students who will create, publish, advertise, and distribute staff trading cards.  Students write about each staff member, take photos of them in original ways that will complement their written pieces, and compose these elements into an attractive and interesting card.  Students use digital cameras, and Pagemaker, a desktop publishing software that is used by professional graphic designers and publishers.  Each semester's group completes about 10 different trading cards.  Cards are be packaged in sets that will be used by teachers as incentive rewards, or sold in the school store.  Advertisements include posters, flyers, live or taped commercials via Jumpstart News (Stone's daily TV broadcast), and e-mail ads via classroom computers.  Students are involved in packaging, keeping up with inventory, and filling orders.  Any profits from the sale of cards will go back into the trading cards account to purchase materials, so that the project can become self-supporting.